Pothuraju Judson

Professor[4] P. Judson[5] Ph.D.[4] (Osmania)
Professor Judson in early 2019
Born	(1950-07-28) 28 July 1950 (age 74)[6] Hyderabad State (1948–1956)
Nationality	Indian
Citizenship	Indian
Education	B. Sc., M. Sc.,[4] Ph. D.
Alma mater	Osmania University,[7] Secunderabad
Known for	Research in Entomology
Scientific career
Fields	Entomology
Institutions	University College of Science, Saifabad, Department of Zoology,[1] Osmania University,[2] Secunderabad
Thesis	The effect of exogenous juvenile hormone on the reproductive system of bug Dysdercus similes Freeman (1980)[3]

P. Judson is an Indian entomologist,[8] who researched much on Dysdercus cingulatus in the 1970s. In the successive decades,[9] he took to teaching of Zoology[10] at Osmania University, Secunderabad, a State-run University u/s 2 (f)[11] of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956. He contributed much to the discipline of Entomology[4] through scholarly articles in scientific journals (see section on writings). He was also a member of the Indian Society for Comparative Animal Physiology.[12]

Judson was Lecturer, Reader,[13] then Professor[5] and Head[14] and Chairperson of Board of Studies[15] of Department of Zoology[16] at Osmania University,[17] Secunderabad. Earlier in 1997,[18] he became Principal[19] of the University College of Science,[20] Saifabad.[21] During his tenure, a full-fledged vocational course in Dryland farming leading to B. Sc. (Dryland farming)[22] was launched in 2001[22] with the cooperation of three external stakeholders, namely, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA) and Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University (ANGRAU).[22]

Much like an Old Testament Scholar contributing to the German academic journal Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (ZAW), Judson and others, contributed a research article in 1978[23] to the Leipzig-based academic journal, Zeitschrift für mikroskopisch-anatomische Forschung.[23]

Few co-authored Writings

Dysdercus cingulatus of Pyrrhocoridae family on which Judson researched much in the 1970s.

Judson's articles co-authored with others appeared in major scientific journals. One of Judson's research articles published in 1978[24] with B. Kishen Rao, S. S. Thakur and B. Juilus Divakar entitled The effects of a juvenile hormone analogue on the male reproductive organs of the red cotton bug, Dysdercus cingulatus (Heteroptera) appeared in the scientific journal Experientia (now Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences),[24]

He was much active among the academic fraternity in Hyderabad, India. In 2007, he co-organized a National Conference on Biodiversity Conversation and Human Wellbeing, which was conducted jointly by the Department of Zoology (OU) and Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History.[25] In 2008, he co-edited a compendium titled Biodiversity Conservation and Human Well-Being.[26] In 2009,[14] Judson convened a national symposium on the theme Implications of climate change on mosquito-borne diseases and its impact on public health[14] at Sir Ronald Ross Institute of Parasitology.[14]

His co-authored writings comprise,

• Judson P, Julius Divakar B, Kishen Rao B (December 1976). "The effect of "Paper factor" on the fecundity and hatchability in Dysdercus cingulatus (Heteroptera: Pyrrhocoridae)". Current Science. 45 (24): 867–868. ISSN 0011-3891. JSTOR 24081409.
• Judson P, Julius Divakar B, Kishen Rao B (December 1977). "Transfer of Juvenoids and Inhibition of Embryogenesis in Dysdercus cingulatus (Heteroptera)". Current Science. 46 (2): 44. ISSN 0011-3891. JSTOR 24080234.
• Judson P, Kishen Rao B, Thakur SS, Julius Divakar B (1978). "Histological changes in the ovaries of Dysdercus cingulatus (F.) caused by the "paper factor"". Zeitschrift für mikroskopisch-anatomische Forschung. 92 (3): 541–546. ISSN 0044-3107. PMID 751342.
• Maruthi Ram G, Kishen Rao B, Thakur SS, Judson P (1978). "Juvenile hormone-like activity of the Pygidial secretion of Anthia sexguttata (F.) (Carabidae: Coleoptera)". Journal of Animal Morphology and Physiology. 25: 93–100. ISSN 0021-8804.
• Judson P, Kishen Rao B, Thakur SS, Julius Divakar B (1978). "The effects of a Juvenile hormone analogue on the male reproductive organs of the red cotton bug, Dysdercus cingulatus (Heteroptera)". Experientia. 34 (6): 817–818. doi:10.1007/BF01947347. ISSN 1420-9071. S2CID 10799244.
• Ashok S, Kishen Rao B, Thakur SS, Judson P, Samuel Raj N, Maruthi Ram G (1978). "Defensive secretion of the soap-nut bug Tessaratoma javanica (Thunberg) (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae) as a juvenile hormone mimic". Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für allgemeine Zoologie und Physiologie der Tiere. 82 (4): 383–394. ISSN 0044-5185.
• Judson P, Kishen Rao B, Thakur SS, Revathy D (1979). "Effect of Precocene II on Reproduction of the Bug Dysdercus similis (F.) (Heteroptera)". Indian Journal of Experimental Biology. 17 (2): 947. ISSN 0975-1009.
• Judson P, Rao VS (1989). "Biology of the Dysdercus koenigii in relation with the mortality and sex ratio (Pyrrhocoridae: Heteroptera)". Pestology. 13 (11): 8–11. ISSN 0970-3012.

Other initiatives

Judson is a communicant member[27] of Samavesam of Telugu Baptist Churches (STBC) and attached to the STBC-Baptist Church, Lallaguda,[27] Secunderabad.[28] He is also associated[29] with Training in Evangelism Needs and Technology (TENT), a brain child of the Geologist, B. E. Vijayam,[30] who set up such facility to promote means of livelihood with the inspiration being attributed[30] to Bishop Bunyan Joseph of the Church of South India, a rural Evangelist, Canon (priest) and later Bishop.^[citation needed]

Inter-faith dialogue

Judson was also involved in other initiatives relating to Interfaith dialogue[31] and Community development. He was on the Council[32] of the Henry Martyn Institute, Shivarampally for over[33] a decade.[34] Judson was on the Committee and later on the Council, which was led by Theologians comprising C. L. Furtado, P. Surya Prakash and others.[35] Judson came up on the Committee, especially at a crucial juncture, when the institute relocated to its new campus in Shivarampally from its earlier locality[36] in Abids.[37]

Community development

Judson is also on the Advisory Board of Genesis Urban and Rural Development[38] under whose aegis a National Conference on emerging challenges and opportunities in Agriculture, Social, Plant, Environment, Cooperatives and Technology was held in 2016.[39]

Efforts by the members of the STBC-Baptist Church, Lallaguda resulted in creation of a social action initiative which was named Burden and Love for Economically and Socially Suppressed (BLESS)[27] in which Judson has been active and presently holds the position of Secretary.[27] Through the Church, he has been actively involved in promoting[40] food security[41] among those marginalized[8] dry land farmers of Telangana through System of Rice Intensification[28] in a few[28] mandals of Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district and Medchal-Malkajgiri district.

During the 2010s, he took up social action initiatives in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Odisha through the Canadian Baptist Ministries[42] in which he was a Field Staff[28] and Team member.[42] Judson is the present India representative[43] of European Baptist Mission International overseeing social action programmes[44] together with 16 partners in the country.[45]

See also

• Prof. Dr. M. Abel, Ph. D. (California),
• Prof. Dr. T. D. J. Nagabhushanam, Ph. D. (IARI),
• Prof. Dr. P. A. James, Ph. D. (Osmania)
• Dr. J. A. Oliver, Ph. D. (ANGRAU),
• Prof. Dr. B. E. Vijayam, Ph. D. (Osmania),

Further reading

• Gordon W. King (2016). Seed Falling on Good Soil: Rooting Our Lives in the Parables of Jesus. Wipf and Stock Publishers. ISBN 9781498279369.

References

1. C. Srinivasulu and Bhargavi, CCINSA Bat Lovers Club, Hyderabad/Secunderabad in Bat Net Newsletter, Volume 6, Number 1, January 2005, pp.24-25.[1]
2. Universities Handbook: India, Inter University Board of India, New Delhi, 2010, p.1066.[2]
3. P. Judson, The effect of exogenous juvenile hormone on the reproductive system of bug Dysdercus similes Freeman, Unpublished Ph. D. thesis, Osmania University, Secunderabad, 1980. Cited in Shodhganga.[3]
4. Commonwealth Universities Handbook, Parts 3-4, 1986, p.1939
5. Universities Handbook, Volume 2, Association of Indian Universities, New Delhi, 2006, p.931.[4]
6. "Pothuraju Judson - 2830021 Director Info".
7. Alumni Association of Osmania University, Members Profile
8. Gordon W. King, Seed Falling on Good Soil: Rooting Our Lives in the Parables of Jesus, Cascade books, Eugene, 2016, p.83.[5]
9. Universities Handbook, Volume 2, Association of Indian Universities, New Delhi, 2006, p.931.[6]
10. K. Moshi Raju, K. Rudrama Devi and P. Minny Jael, Garlic extract prevents chromium induced cytogenetic damage in somatic cells of mice, Journal of Research in Environmental Science and Toxicology, Volume 1(6), July 2012, pp. 131-136.[7]
11. University Grants Commission, List of Universities under Section 2(f) and Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956.[8]
12. Indian Journal of Comparative Animal Physiology, Volumes 8-11, 1990, p.68.[9]
13. Commonwealth Universities Yearbook, Volume 2, 1993, p.1464
14. National Symposium on implications of climate change on mosquito-borne diseases and its impact on public health, August 2009.[10]
15. A brief report on the two-day lecture workshop on "current trends" in animal biology and biotechnology, February, 2010.[11]
16. M. Moshe Raju and K. Rudrama Devi, Modulating Effects of Curcumin on Chromium Induced Chromosomal Aberrations in Somatic Cells of Mice in Nature Environment and Pollution Technology, Volume 9, Number 4, 2010, pp.813-817.[12]
17. Indian Science Abstracts, Volume 17, 1981, p.894
18. University College of Science, Saifabad, Principal's message
19. P. Ramachandra Reddy, P. Padma Rao, A survey of plant crude drugs in folklore from Ranga Reddy district, Andhra Pradesh, India in Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge, Volume 1(1), October 2002, pp.20-25.[13]
20. Ethnobotany: Journal of Society of Ethnobotanists, Volumes 9-12, 1997, p.108.[14]
21. Masanori Abe, Yohtaro Yamazaki (Compiled), Ferrites: proceedings of ICF 8 ; main conference, Sept. 18-Sept.21, 2000, Kyoto, Japan ; satellite conference, Sept. 25-Sept.27, 2000, Tokyo, Japan, 2000, p.234.[15]
22. The Hindu, OU to introduce new course in dryland farming , Monday, 23 April 2001.[16]^[dead link‍]
23. P. Judson, B. Kishen Rao, S. S. Thakur, B. Julius Divakar, Histological changes in the ovaries of Dysdercus cingulatus (F.) caused by the "paper factor" in Zeitschrift für mikroskopisch-anatomische Forschung, Volume 92, Issue 3, 1978, pp.541-546.[17]
24. P. Judson, B. Kishen Rao, S. S. Thakur and B. Juilus Divakar, The effects of a juvenile hormone analogue on the male reproductive organs of the red cotton bug, Dysdercus cingulatus (Heteroptera) in Experientia, Volume 34, Issue 6, 1978, pp.817-818.[18].
25. Annual Report 2006-2007, Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History, Coimbatore, 2007.[19]
26. B. Raghavendra Rao, S.N. Prasad, C. Srinivasulu and P. Judson (Edited), Biodiversity Conservation and Human Well-Being, Department of Zoology, OU, Hyderabad, 2008.[20]
27. Baptist Church, Lallaguda, BLESS Committee
28. Cut to the Chaise, Seeing is believing, 2012
29. Training in Evangelism Needs and Technology, Board
30. Kay Marshall Strom, In the presence of the poor: Changing the face of India, Authentic, Hyderabad, 2008.[21]
31. HMI Newsletter, Volume 31, Number 2, July - December 2010
32. HMI Newsletter, Volume 32, Number 1, January-June 2011
33. HMI Annual Report 2013-2014
34. HMI Annual Report 2012-2013
35. HMI Newsletter, Volume 31, Number 1, January-June 2010
36. Al-Basheer, Volumes 1-2, 1972, p.27
37. Dinesh K. Agarwal, Great Struggle: Bishop's Story, Patridge India, New Delhi, 2016.[22]
38. Genesis Urban and Rural Development, Advisory Board
39. National Conference on emerging challenges and opportunities in Agriculture, Social, Plant, Environment, Cooperatives and Technology, GUARD Society, 2016.[23]
40. Bethel Church, Stuttgart, Germany.[24]
41. Lois Mitchell, The Fishermen and the Sea: Net Profits at what cost?, CBM Newsletter, 2017.[25]
42. 2013 Year Book of the Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches, 2013, p.F-2.[26]
43. Europäische Baptistische Mission, EBM Schweiz, 2015^[permanent dead link‍]
44. Ebm magazin, Vol. 3 (13), 17 December 2013
45. Matthias Dichristin, Stories from the Missionfield - Encounters in a Fishing Village, February 2019.[27]

Academic offices
Preceded by M. Janardhan Reddy, 1995-1997	Principal, University College of Science, Saifabad[1] 1997-2001	Succeeded by M. Prabhakar, 2001-2003
Honorary titles
Preceded by P. Joshua	Chairperson, Council of Christian Hospitals, Pithapuram, Andhra Pradesh 2019-	Succeeded by Incumbent

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1. University College of Science, Saifabad, Principal's message